The happy little days of the Ye family

After Ye's father returned home, he told Ye Xilin to clean the pots and pans used at the braised pork stall, and then walked briskly into the house with an abacus.

Father Ye flipped through the account book of the leather he had bought before. In the past six months, Father Ye had successively bought a total of 60 taels of leather, and spent 2 taels on needlework and fabric.

Not counting the wages of Ye's mother and Grandma Ye, the total cost of these leathers is 62 taels. It can be said that most of the money earned by Ye's father in the past two years is here.

Fortunately, the price of leather coats was good. The leather coats and leather boots that Father Ye had were sold for a total of 130 taels. Father Ye felt happy looking at the 130 taels of silver notes.

After deducting the cost of 62 taels, the profit from this batch of leather goods is 68 taels. Half of the money earned will be paid to the public, and Ye's father can also get a private house with 34 taels of silver.

The profit was indeed high, and it was not in vain that he spent so much money to go to mountain villages and backing villages to collect leather goods.

Ye's father smiled and handed the capital of the leather goods and the 34 taels he earned to Ye's mother. It was the first time that Ye's mother had received so much money. She took the banknote and looked at it again and again.

Ye's father invested too much money in this batch of leather goods. There were several times when Ye's mother wanted Ye's father to sell these leather clothes as soon as possible. One night, she even had a nightmare, dreaming that these leather clothes could not be sold and were thrown into her hands.

Although these leather coats were sold at a good price in the end, Ye's mother would not give so much money to Ye's father as capital in the future.

It's good to collect a batch and sell a batch. Although the price is not as high as this time at the end of the year, it is safer. If you get it, you won't be hurt.

Ye Donglin and Ye Qingqing are both engaged, and the money will be left for several children to get married.

Ye's mother was thinking about how to keep the family's money, while Ye's father was thinking about how to spend it.

In the middle of the year, Father Ye sold his first batch of leather goods and bought a thin silver bracelet for Grandma Ye, Mrs. Ye, Mother Ye and Ye Qingqing.

Father Ye plans to buy them another silver hairpin at the end of the year. Grandma Ye has helped make so many leather clothes and boots, so it is not an exaggeration to honor them with a silver hairpin at the end of the year.

Moreover, Ye Qingqing was already engaged. She was a grown-up girl, so she should buy some better jewelry.

Father Ye has never lowered the corners of his mouth since he entered the house. He came to Mrs. Ye's room with a cheerful smile and took the account book and the 34 taels of silver to be handed over to the palace.

Of the 3 banknotes I received today, Father Ye left a 100-tael banknote and gave Mrs. Ye a 30-tael banknote and two small silver ingots worth 2 taels.

The mother and son murmured happily in the room for a while, and then Father Ye came out with a smile on his face.

After Father Ye went out, Mrs. Ye took the banknotes and silver ingots and smiled so hard that she couldn't close her mouth.

The money at home is all silver ingots. This is the first time Mrs. Ye has received a silver note, and she is not sure where to hide it.

This banknote is light and not as strong as silver. What if it is lost or eaten by insects?

Now the two small stalls on the pier are bringing in money every day, plus the embroidery made by Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing, the headbands and hairbands made by her, and the money from selling honeysuckle, the father-in-law has a lot of money.

Old Mrs. Ye thought that her family had more and more money. Should she use this money to buy fields or buy another mountain?

The family already has two mountains, and it would be impossible to take care of them if they buy another mountain. Moreover, there are countless mountains in the village, so they cannot afford to buy them all.

It's hard to buy land now. With so much money at home, Mrs. Ye feels a little uneasy. She'll be easily awakened by any disturbance at night.

At night, Mrs. Ye lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.

Mrs. Ye pushed Mr. Ye, who was already asleep, and said, "Old man, my family has a lot of money now. Do you want to buy a shop in the town for rent?"

"At least I can get a sum of money every month, which will guarantee the harvest during droughts and floods, and it will save trouble."

Mr. Ye: "There are still a lot of wild products and red dates at home that have not been sold. There is no rush. All the wild products at home have been sold. Let's make plans based on how much money we have."

Mr. Ye also knows that his family's savings are increasing, and he is also considering buying some more property for his family.

In fact, it is best to buy some good paddy fields. The family only has three acres of paddy fields. In the future, when Donglin and Xilin grow up, the brothers will separate sooner or later. Just 3 acres of paddy fields and 2 acres of dry land are not enough.

The problem is that no one is selling land now, and Mr. Ye is also worried.

Father Ye met many foreign merchants at the dock, some of whom were in the dry goods business.

Ye's father had previously contacted several merchants who specialized in dry goods business. These merchants wanted large quantities, but the prices were quite high. Ye's father felt that it would be better for him to sell them slowly on the dock.

Although setting up a stall on the pier takes time, it makes a lot of money, and Ye Xilin is now watching the braised pork stall. In the end, Ye's father decided to rent a stall to sell mountain products.

As soon as Ye's father put out the wild products at home, Boss Huang, who bought leather clothes yesterday, came to the stall to pick out the wild products.

Father Ye was very enthusiastic, "Boss Wang, my stall has good dried bamboo fungus, dried mushrooms, and dried bamboo shoots, as well as red dates newly picked this year. It is good whether you eat it at home or use it as a New Year gift."

Boss Wang just wanted to buy some specialties from the south to make as New Year gifts. Boss Wang looked at the stalls for a long time and finally bought 50 kilograms of dried bamboo shoots and 10 kilograms of dried bamboo fungus. On the strong recommendation of Father Ye, he ordered I bought 20 kilograms of red dates.

Towards the end of the year, the dry goods on the stalls were still selling well. Businessmen in the north especially liked the dried bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus from Ye's stall. The dried vegetables collected in the village were also selling well.

It took Ye's father half a month to sell out all the mountain goods. However, Ye's father only sold half of the red dates. He planned to keep the rest at the end of the year and wait for the corvee people to come back and sell them slowly.

During this period, Father Ye sold a total of 2800 kilograms of dried bamboo shoots, 800 kilograms of dried mushrooms and 50 kilograms of bamboo fungus. In addition, Father Ye also collected hundreds of kilograms of dried vegetables from the village.

Most of these things are produced by my own mountain, and the rest are recovered from the mountain village.

After dinner, the four of them gathered in Mrs. Ye's room again and began to take stock of this year's income from mountain goods.

Mrs. Ye opened the account book and said, "Including the first half of the year, our family sold a total of 3800 kilograms of dried bamboo shoots, 1300 kilograms of dried mushrooms and 90 kilograms of dried bamboo fungus throughout this year."

"Dried bamboo shoots are 13 Wen per catty, dried mushrooms are 23 Wen per catty, and dried bamboo fungus is 190 Wen per catty. The total is 96 taels and 4 cents."

"Twenty taels of it are the cost of collecting mountain products in the village and Dashan Village. In addition, it also costs 20 taels of labor to hire people to dig bamboo shoots and make dried bamboo shoots in the mountains. After deducting these dry goods this year, I earned a total of 5 taels and 71 taels."

"If the red dates are not sold out, we will not count them for now. We will count them all together at the end of the year when they are all sold out."

"Including the money from selling honeysuckle and the family's monthly income and expenditure, the public account now totals 186 taels."